"Oh please. This documentary is one of the most powerful pieces of work I have ever seen in my life. Everyone should be required to see it. If the profanity in it offends you, deal with it. Life sucks, wear a helmet."
So you are all for children learning any and all language that is aired on broadcast tv?
If you're a parent, you must ACT like one. If you know it's being aired, you must be PROACTIVE.
No, I'm for parents raising their children, not the feds, what about you?
I'm all for the parents ability to turn the channel, or having the children get the hell out of the room. I'd say that's allot better than government regulation. I always send the kids to bed before I watch South Park. =)
"So you are all for children learning any and all language that is aired on broadcast tv? "
No. Which is why I wouldn't let a child watch it.
And, see my first post. You obviously don't get it either.
You know what, children learn that language earlier than you think.
But it does offer a pretty simple rule to teach your children: If your friends or co-workers dies in a terrorist attack on a building where you work, you can say Sh*t, F*ck, etc... as much as you want, but anything short of that you are eating the Ivory Soap.
I'll jump in here. People swear. Kids will sooner or later hear people swearing. Parenting isn't about forever shielding children from the bad in the world. That's impossible. You can, however, direct their exposure to it and give them the guidance to understand it.
This show would be the perfect opportunity to explain to kids that while polite people don't swear in every day life, they sometimes do so in times of emergency.
Though my children have been taught not to use those words ... they have already heard them and won't be shocked if they heard them again
With that said .. there is a warning from CBS ahead of time to inform parents about the language
They can choose whether or not to let their kids watch it
This is not a show the air every day of the week
Game. Set. Match. The FCC isn't going to do jack about this.
It's YOUR job to raise your kids, not anyone else's, Hillary. And in the real world, when something as serious as what happened on 9/11 goes down, people let slip with the cuss words.
It's OK for children to learn about terrorism, murder and mayhem but not profanity? What kind of logic is that?
This should be watched by every American and should not be "sanitized" for those who may be offended.
Any child who is too young/not mature enough to handle hearing the f-bomb shouldn't be watching graphic footage of real-life violence, including people jumping to their deaths. That's where the parental discretion part comes in.
Contrary to popular belief (and George Carlin), the FCC has never maintained a list of words that are universally verboten. Obscenity depends on the use and meaning of the word -- if it addresses a sex act or bodily function, it's more suspect than the same word used in a figurative or general sense. So you're more lilkely to get away with saying that you're p---ed off than that you've been p---ed on.
It would take a stretch that would make a yoga master wince to claim that the wordy dirds in the 9/11 documentary are meant to titillate, or could have that effect. I don't think there's any room to argue that the acts documented are orders of magnitude more obscene than any words blurted in reaction could ever be.
If you wish to shield children from obscenity -- and I don't blame you for doing so until they're old enough to absorb and understand what happened on that awful day -- the words are the least of the concerns. It's like letting your kids watch someone being mauled to death by a lion but being concerned that the bloody victim might be naked at some point.